RE: Re[2]: [ga] Names Council vote

["Peter de Blanc" <pdeblanc@usvi.net>]

Thank you, William.

I must admit, I tend to be a "straight-ahead" kind of person in my politics
and relations. Also, I go to the extreme to write my postings in such a
manner as that non-english speakers can have a chance of understanding
and/or translating them. I spent 5 years with UNIDO (united nations
industrial development org) as technical consultant for IT, telecom, and
internet in developing countries in latin america and the caribbean, and in
about 4 languages. I myself am about 33% fluent in spanish, and certainly
not able to present technical or political material in spanish. (I can order
a large selection of food, though!)

Anyway, I can understand the issues of north america and big business, ICANN
approved registrars, etc, and I certainly favor competition to (hopefully)
lower the price to consumers of a commodity. In this case, domain names.

However, my personal interests and philosophy are put on the side when it
comes to representing the constituency that elected me to the Names Council.
So I need to look to the ultimate consequences to the ccTLDs of any
ICANN-VeriSign deals. Then I vote based on what I feel is best for the
majority of ccTLDs.

It is truely unfortunate that some persons on this list do not understand
the international nature of this communication medium.If they did, they
would prepare simple and concise postings that could easily be translated by
http://world.altavista.com/ .

We can all take a lesson from Pilar Luque of .ES, who says she will "devote
her lifetime" to improving communication.

peter

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of William
X. Walsh
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:32 AM
To: Peter de Blanc
Cc: ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re[2]: [ga] Names Council vote


Hello Peter,

Thursday, March 29, 2001, 8:57:00 PM, Peter de Blanc wrote:

> Dave, I do not understand if you are meaning sarcasm, criticism, or
support
> of my position.

> Please clarify.

Dave is being sarcastic, because of criticism of him where he has
tried to claim the new contract is preferable, but has failed to
provide anything substantive as to why he thinks that, or come up with
anything specific where it is beneficial to the internet community.

He is incorrect trying to say that you would be subject to the
criticism, but as I said, he is incorrect, since you provided specific
reasons why you supported the contract you did.

That can be respected, even if I, or others, disagree with those
reasons.

Dave however, provides no specific reasons whatsoever to back up his
position.

So Dave is trying to claim that discussing "practical" differences
isn't wanted by us, when in fact it is.  He is trying to cloud the
issues, in order to make it look like we don't want to hear about
practical differences.  That couldn't be farther from the truth.

Dave, however, doesn't provide any explanation of the practical
differences that provide the basis for his support of the new
contract, despite repeated calls for him to do so.  THAT is what he
has been criticized for.

He thinks that by coloring that criticism in this way, he can make it
look like what the GA has said and concluded should be discounted.

Again,he couldn't be farther from the truth.

--
Best regards,
 William                            mailto:william@userfriendly.com


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